Casey’s Reviews > The Death and Life of Great American Cities > Status Update

“impersonal city streets make anonymous city people” (good city design = fun, walkable, safe cities,, so much of safety in a city is about the design and about how good design enlivens the web of trust among the strangers with whom we inhabit our cities),, jane jacobs is so so brilliant what the helly

mixed use zoning in city streets increases street safety by creating streets that are well used and that people want to watch (foster a porch hangout culture), thereby reducing (and in some cases eliminating all street based violence)

“the ecology of cities” 🥹💞